Harry Potter and the Gem of Power

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Chapter 6: Family

Speech types:

~Parseltongue~

Spells

Parselmagic

"Normal Speech"

'Thoughts'

(Gobbledygook)

(Previously)

"I'm Augusta Longbottom."

(Present)

"Ok. Where are we going?" I ask, apprehensive of her, as I don't have the best relationships with adults.

"To pick up my grandson, Neville. He's at St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies." She replied, suddenly looking very depressed and withdrawn.

"Are you okay? You don't look very good right now. Maybe you should sit down." I inform her, hoping that she's not sick or anything.

"I'm fine, Harry - is it okay to call you harry?" I nod in consent "Okay, well Harry, I'm not happy right now because my lost my son and his wife, just a couple of years ago, and they haven't improved at all." She explained, and I nodded.

"What happened? If I may ask, that is." I asked, hoping that I would be told, and possibly help them.

"I'd tell you, but I don't think that I should tell you without Neville's agreement. It's his choice in the end." She explained.

"Ok, so how are we getting to St. Mungo's? Train or floo?" I ask, wanting to get to Neville quickly, so I could possibly know what was wrong with his parents.

"Apparition." She answered, holding out her arm. "Please take my arm, so we can head over there. Oh, and brace yourself, it's not a pleasant experience for first timers."

'Is this what you made me do?' I ask the thing in my head.

"Yes… it is…" It replied.

I grab her arm, and brace myself, and we apparate to St. Mungo's. We enter the building, and Augusta asked the receptionist to watch over me until she returns with Neville, to which the receptionist agreed.

"Please follow me to the waiting area, young sir. What happens to be your name?" The receptionist asked, looking at my face, into my eyes. I feel a new presence enter my head, and I create four walls surrounding the presence, trapping it in my head. The receptionist suddenly collapses, and the presence tries to pull out, but can't break the walls I created around it.

'That wasn't very smart, or nice, miss. You should know better than to read kids minds. Especially my mind. Now, if you'll stop doing this to every patient who you bring to the waiting area, I'll let you go. Otherwise, I'm going to introduce you into my subconscious for an extended period of time. Oh, and I'll know if you're lying, so please be honest.' I think at it.

'I'll stop doing it the patients, if you'll let me go.' She mentally replies.

'You're lying. Say hello to Hell.' I say, before sending her into my subconscious, with my worst memories.

'NOOOOO!' She screams as she doubles her effort to escape, only for it to not work.

I then continue walking to the waiting area, having read her mind for directions.

(10 minutes later)

"Harry, why is the Receptionist on the floor, in a coma?" Augusta asks, as we walk by her.

"Because she tried to read my mind. So I trapped her in my subconscious, and I'll release her when I see fit." I reply.

"You'll release her now, or you'll be in deep trouble." She scolded me. I laugh and decline the release of the receptionist.

"You won't be able to compare to my previous relatives, so you don't scare me. You probably won't beat me, threaten to kill me, starve me, or anything of that sort, now would you?" I ask, knowing the answer.

"No, why would you even ask that?" She asked surprised.

"Because that's what my previous relative would do in punishment. Now, they don't currently live in this realm." I reply, without emotion.

"WHAT!? Who were they, and who sent you there?" She explodes, looking outraged at the possibility of my abuse.

"I don't know. But I plan on figuring that out soon." I tell her.

I did however, know who sent me to live with them, and I planned on ending him when I met him.

"Well, let's get you home, and washed up. Have you eaten yet?" She asks, not looking forward to the answer.

"No. I haven't for the last 3 days, but I'm not hungry, so it doesn't matter. Let's get going." I reply, then I did something that wasn't nice, but I sent a very strong, but not noticeable mind probe, and look for a picture of Longbottom Manor. I find one, near the front of her mind, and memorize it.

"Let's go, I'm tired." I say, then apparate to the Manor, and wait for Augusta. 30 seconds later, I see her at the edge of the property, looking around for me. I wave, and she appears right in front of me.

"DON'T DO THAT AGAIN! YOU KNOW HOW APPARATE!?" She screams, and I nod, looking unimpressed.

"If that was supposed to intimidate me, you failed. I've heard real screams, and that wasn't even on the charts it was so weak. Well, I'm tired, so where's my room?" I ask her, turning towards the Manor, and start walking towards it. I feel her hand moving towards my shoulder and I send my magic towards her hand, stopping it. "Don't touch me."

I sense her nod, and I use my mind probe to look for the room she wanted me to sleep in. It was a big room, but I didn't care.

"I'm going to my room, call me down for dinner." I inform her, before apparating into the room I was staying in.

"But, how can you apparate already?" She whispers to herself.